Isma Almas
Isma arrived in the UK with her parents from Pakistan in 1978. Twenty six years later she delighted them by choosing the sinful and degrading profession of stand up comedy. And it’s a decision that is already proving fruitful for one of the most talked about acts on the circuit.
Since performing in November 2005, Isma’s rise has been spectacular. She won the First Laugh competition at the Sheffield Comedy Festival in 2006, as well as being a semi-finalist in the unfair and biased So You Think You’re Funny contest. She has been a finalist in the Funny Women and Hackney New Act of the Year Competitions.
She had a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival with her debut show ‘Isma Almas Bombs’.
Isma dispels myths about Muslim women whilst creating twice as many. Drawing on her council estate roots in Bradford, Isma’s comedy is intelligent, warm, acidic, challenging, accessible, happy, vicious, frank, charming and honest. Every type of audience from sociology professors to lads on a stag night, warm to her instantly and are expertly taken on a comedy white knuckle ride.
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